Friday, 6 April 2012

Chinese Teen Sells His kidney for an iPad 2

A Chinese teenager has been reported to have sold one
of his kidneys to acquire the new iPad 2. The boy,17 identified only by his surname, "Zheng",
confessed to his mother that he had sold the kidney after spotting an online
advertisement offering cash to anyone prepared to become an organ donor.

He said "I wanted to buy an iPad 2, but I didn't have the money". However, he surfed the net looking for how to get one easily without much demands then found
an advert posted online by an agent saying they were able to pay RMB20,000 to
buy a kidney.

After negotiations the operation was done at a local hospital and he was discharged after three days.

The boy, who has suffered complications following the surgery, returned home
but was unable to keep what he had done from his mother. When he got home on the third day, he had a laptop and a newApplehandset and this made his mother curious to know where he got the money to buy the gadgets. He confessed that he had sold
one of his kidneys."

The mother took her son to Chenzhou, Hunan Province where the kidney was removed to report the crime to the police,
however, the mobiles of the three agents that Zheng had contacted were all
switched off.

Trading organs online is a common practice in China,
despite repeated attempts by China's government to stamp out the practice.
Last year Japanese television reported that a group of "transplant
tourists" had paid £50,000 to receive new kidneys in China.